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Scott Waterhouse who writes at the “Backup Blog” posted a good note about an important and often ignored setting for NetBackup media servers. He references this in relation to EDL, the disk library which has an embedded NetBackup media server, although it is a useful tip for many other circumstances . He points out the need to make sure that you set up NetBackup correctly so that when you duplicate tapes or images it doesn’t require the data to traverse your IP network and slow your duplication down significantly. You do this by correctly setting the alternate read server for your duplication which you can do for a Disk Staging Storage Unit, in Vault or in a Storage Life Cycle policy.

Nice work Scott.

Tim Burlowski
Technical Product Manager